Snap tape



June 9, 1936. N, l, FLElSCHER EQME@ SNAP TAPE l Filed Jan. lO, 1953'Patented June 9, 1936 UNITED SNAP TAPE

a corporation of Ohio Application January 10,

Z Claims.

My invention relates to tape provided with snap fasteners regularlydisposed throughout its length.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide as anarticle of commerce tape or material in a continuous length to whichsnap fasteners are secured at intervals in folds thereof, such tape tobe supplied by the dealer in Whatever lengths or quantity may berequired by the consumer, it being cut when sold or used so as to supplyto the purchaser or user a length of tape having the required number ofsnap fasteners.

The tape as thus provided, may have permanently secured to its foldseither of the elements of a snap fastener, the other element beingattached to the secured element, or the elements may be securedindividually to the folds, different elements being in alternatearrangement. The tape so tted with fasteners may be supplied to theretailer in bolts or on reels to be unwound and served in theV requiredlengths to the purchaser or user.

Further objects of my invention will appear from the following detaileddescription thereof.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a perspective cf one form of my new snap tape, whereon themale element of the snap fastener is secured to the folds of the tape.

Figure 2 is an edge elevation of the construction shown in Figure 1, thefemale element of the fastener, however, being removed but in adjacentlocation to indicate its application.

Figure 3 is a perspective of a modied form in which the female elementof the fastener is secured to the tape.

Figure 4 is an edge elevation of the construction shown in Figure 3, themale element of the fastener, however, being removed but in adjacentlocation to indicate its application.

Figure 5 is a perspective of a tape to which both elements ofthe'fastener are secured individually to the tape.

In the several figures of the drawing the numeral I indicates the tape,which may be of any desirable material, either silk or cotton, elasticor nonelastic, and of any desired width.

In the form shown in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4, the tape I is doubled atregular intervals to form folds 2 2. In the construction illustrated inFigures 1 and 2 the male elements 3 are secured to the folds 2, and theother elements of each snap 4 4 are snapped to the elements 3 in theusual manner.

In the form shown in Figures 3 and 4 the fe- 1933, Serial No. 650,970

male elements 5 are secured to the folds 2, and the other elements 6 aresnapped to the elements 5. As thus constructed and supplied with snaps,it is obvious that the tape may be handled the same as any other tape inbolts or on reels.

In Figure 5 the tape l is provided with adjacent oppositely disposedfolds T l and 8 8, the pairs of folds being disposed at regularintervals along the tape. Secured to the folds 'l are the male elements9 9 of the snap fasteners, and similarly secured to the folds 3 are thefemale elements Ill l0. vention shown in Figure 5, it is obvious alsothat the tape may be supplied in bolts or on reels.

In merchandising the tape of either form of construction shown inFigures 1 to 4 inclusive, the dealer cuts the tape adjacent that one ofthe folds 2 whichV will sever the length of tape having the requirednumber of snap fasteners. Similarly in supplying tape of theconstruction illustrated in Figure 5, the dealer cuts the tape betweenfolds 'l and 8, for instance on the lines Il ll of Figure 5, supplyingto the customer the required length of tape with related fastenerelements. In the construction of Figure 5 the user will usually find itdesirable to sever the individual pairs of snap elements by againcutting the tape between the folds 'l and 8, so that each length of tapewhen thus ultimately severed is provided with a pair of fasteners whichmay be used together as a unit for any desired purpose to which thecombined tape and fastener elements may be suited. The lengths of tapethus severed by the user, are available for use as shoulder straps orsupports or similar articles for retaining the shoulders of garments inposition and like uses.

In the form illustrated in Figures 1 to 4, inclusive, the loose elementof the snap is attached, with the free end of the tape, to a suitablesection of the garment, the loop end of the tape containing the otherelement of the snap is available to engage around the portion of thegarment to be secured. In the form shown in Figure 5, the tape containsat its respective ends both elements of the snap and is thus availableto loop around portions of garments to be held together in position.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a strip of material provided with aseries of pairs of folds, one member of each pair being oppositelydisposed to the other member, said pairs being disposed In the form ofmy inat regular intervals, and a separate fastener e1ement secured toeach of said folds through both thicknesses thereof.

2. As an article of manufacture, a strip of material provided with aseries of pairs of folds, one member of each pair being oppositeiyopposed to the other member, said pairs being disposed at regularintervals, and a separate fastener element secured in each of saidfolds, through both thicknesses thereof, the elements of each pair beingcomplementary to each other. 5

NATHAN I. FLEISCHER.

